title: Dr Robert Proust: a gynaecologist's contribution to world literature.
abstract: Dr Robert Proust, though overshadowed in history by his more famous brother, the novelist Marcel Proust, was an eminent and innovative French surgeon who achieved recognition largely as a gynaecologist, but also was an accomplished urologist and general surgeon. He was the author of a textbook, The surgery of the female genital tract, that was very successful in his lifetime and ran to six editions. He was always very supportive of his brother's writing, and after Marcel's premature death Robert edited and arranged for publication of the final three volumes of his novel À la recherche du temps perdu, which has been called the greatest novel of the twentieth century.
authors.affiliation: James Cook University School of Medicine, Cairns Campus, PO Box 902, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia. Electronic address: caroline.decosta@jcu.edu.au.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: de Costa
mesh_terms: D005197:Famous Persons; D005602:France; D006176:Gynecology / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008091:Literature / Q000266:history
keywords: History of gynaecology; Proust Marcel; Proust Robert